Being a Lead Designer is both a demanding and fulfilling job. You are not only bringing your effort to improve your design team’s performance and help each one discover his true potential. Your job is also to design workflows and constantly improve the design process.

How many of you start your designs creating a desktop centric psd file, throw in some Lorem ipsum and then present the results to your clients for review? The problem with this approach is that, in a mobile world, those static elements won’t offer any interactivity and will speak little of the user experience.

Grids are no mystery for any designer nowadays, whether you are designing an app or a website. There are grids set up for all sorts of content alignment: horizontal grids, baseline grids to align content on columns. There are grids we adhere to strictly, and grids whose boundaries are meant to be broken in order to obtain creative layouts. But one of the grids that really got my attention is the 8pt grid system once I understood the benefits it could bring to my designs.

A new year ahead, new expectations, new challenges, many resolutions for both the personal and the professional life. Fellow web designers, we are on the same track, and to make sure we will keep rocking, we brainstormed in the office what we believe the trends in the digital design will be for the upcoming year and this is the list we came up with.